- October 1, 2011Co-author Gerald M. Levine Copyright protection extends to expressive material. Strings of effectively arranged letters, words, phrases, clauses, sentences and…
- September 24, 2011Co-author Gerald M. Levine The dead are beyond suing but wariness about the living in recollecting the past should not…
- September 17, 2011Co-author Gerald M. Levine The U.S. Supreme Court has described fair use as "a privilege in others than the owner…
- September 9, 2011Co-author Gerald M. Levine Copyright infringement has consequences. The Copyright Act protects the integrity of an author's work by granting…
- July 6, 2011I recently reviewed a manuscript of a non-fiction, semi-scholarly work analyzing images of historical prophesy (tarot) cards. The author explained…
- June 15, 2011Authors own their copyrights. It is their intellectual property to do with as they will. But, in some instances either…
- April 2, 2011A number of Guild members have asked me about the Google Settlement. Those who opted in saw an opportunity for…
- March 14, 2011About electronic rights" there are two fundamental questions: What are electronic rights? And, Should an author grant or retain them?…
- January 30, 2011There is a difference between contracts offered by traditional publishers and contracts by printers that resemble but are not publishing…
- January 8, 2011Publishers are precise about the genre of the works they agree to publish. What is being licensed (what the author/licensor…
- October 28, 2010Gerald M. Levine, Co-Author Most publishing contracts provide for both the establishment and termination of the author/publisher relationship. Why should…
- October 1, 2010Gerald M. Levine, Esq, co-author The U.S. Constitution grants to authors and inventors for “limited times ... the exclusive right…